The blue circle comes to your desktop
If you've used Google Maps for mobile, you'll be familiar with My Location. With single click of a button, your approximate location is shown on the map with a blue circle. Wouldn't it be great if t...
Find Creative Commons images with Image Search
Let's say you're a blogger. You've just returned from a trip to New York City, and you're writing a post on New York landmarks. You want to illustrate your travel guide with an image — as the saying...
Introducing AmazonWireless - A New Amazon Web Site Offering Cell Phones and Service Plans
Easy-to-Use Web Site Guides Customers Through the Purchase Process; Rebate-Free Shopping and FREE Two-Day Shipping on All Phones — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the beta launch of A...
Speeding Up RSS
I'm sorry, but RSS feeds are way too slow. I know this first-hand. As part of my job here at TechCrunch, I monitor a lot of RSS feeds for breaking news. We also produce our own feed and I can see h...
Next in your iPhone OS
Apple guys do keep themselves busy thinking up new ways how to improve their iPhone OS software. And Apple's patent applications give us a glimpse of how they may go about it.
Hitwise: Bing Both Grows & Drops In June; Google Still Tops
Just in from Hitwise, the first month-to-month figures since the launch of Bing. And the figures show Bing has both gained and dropped in the same month. Confusing? Yes it is! — Here are the mont...
Sun Valley: Gates and Schmidt Do Lunch But Don't Comment on Google OS
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Google CEO Eric Schmidt had an awkward encounter this morning at the Sun Valley mogulfest this morning — and after Google detailed plans Tuesday to create software it...
The Longest Tweet In History
The short tale of a Forbesian technological breakthrough. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound. On May 6, 1954, Roger ...
New York Times Considers $5 Monthly Web-Access Fee
New York Times Co. said in a survey of print subscribers that it's considering a $5 monthly fee for access to its namesake newspaper's Web site. — In the survey, Times Co. also asked whether subscri...
Long Live 3.5mm: HTC Makes The Switch
Dongles. In-line adapters. Proprietary headset ports. If it's an audio port on a mobile handset and it's not 3.5mm, it's junk. As we declared back in May, we're done with all of it. Now HTC, sire...
New York Attorney General Sues Tagged.com
Turns out our recent story on the spammy social network Tagged.com had a fan — Andrew Cuomo, New York's attorney general. — Mr. Cuomo has announced he intends to sue the company “for deceptive e-mai...
Facebook Sued For Click Fraud
Sports site RootZoo has sued Facebook for click fraud, alleging that the social networking site charged for more clicks than actually occurred. The lawsuit comes several weeks after Facebook users be...
Real-Time Startup CoTweet Raises Real Money
It's the latest sign of Silicon Valley's zeal for startups that exploit Twitter: CoTweet, a company that offers software to help business send and receive messages from multiple Twitter accounts, is a...
Clippy stars in new Office 2010 promo video
I'm not sure “spell check this” has the same ring as “I'll be back,” but I have enjoyed the series of promo videos for Office 2010 that try to cast the software as the plot of an action movie. — The...
TokBox Fires 50% Of Engineering Team, All Founders Gone
It was only seven months ago that video chat startup TokBox sent a taco truck to meet newly laid-off Yahoo employees in an effort to cheer up and recruit a few of them (the startup was kind enough to ...
iPhone 3GS limited to 384 Kbps upstream
When the iPhone 3GS arrived last month, I explained the ins and outs of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), the rubric that covers AT&T's two highest-speed cellular data standards: HSDPA for downstream a...
Microsoft is planning an Office party on Monday
Microsoft is planning to announce Office Web Applications and the Office 2010 beta at the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans next Monday. — Neowin hinted at the announcemen...
Apple agrees to recall iPod MP3 players
U.S. computer giant Apple succumbed to Seoul's pressure to recall its first-generation iPod Nano following a series of reports of alleged battery explosion of the popular MP3 players, the government s...
Quicken for Mac Coming in February 2010
Recent media and blogger coverage has led to some speculation that Quicken may not release a new Quicken desktop product for the Mac. — We'd like to clear the air: Intuit will release a new version ...
Oodle + Twitter = Another Jab At Craigslist
Oodle continues to chip away at Craigslist's domination of the online classifieds market by partnering with much larger sites like AOL and powering their listings—but with a new Twitter integration, t...
With ad revenue up 35%, Gawker Media returns to pageview bonuses and plans “checkbook journalism”
Eight months ago, Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton was predicting a 40-percent drop in U.S. advertising and paring back accordingly: He laid off 19 writers and, by selling some blogs …
Akamai: U.S. 33rd Fastest Broadband Country - Behind Slovakia, in terms of percentage of connections above 2Mbps...
Pre owners complain of lack of onscreen keys
Palm Pre owners are ironically complaining that their smartphones don't have onscreen keyboards, a study by Strategy Analytics found today. Despite Palm having added the QWERTY keyboard in response t...
Silverlight 3 goes live on Microsoft's servers
Download Microsoft Silverlight 3 for Windows Final from Fileforum now. — A day earlier than expected, though not without precedent, Microsoft's servers began reporting to Silverlight users today the...
Is Social Network Advertising Ready for Primetime?
Mapping the social graph. — Let's get the bad news out of the way. — As a result of the poor economy and various difficulties at MySpace, paid advertising on online social networks in the US is ex...
Sun Valley: Schmidt Didn't Want to Build Chrome Initially, He Says
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday evening that, for six years, he resisted the idea of building what became the Chrome browser and (soon) operating system, before succumbing to the ent...
I am sorry if you beleived it.
Oh, right, I also DO know CSS and HTML.
Best Buy and TiVo Are Forming an Alliance
SAN FRANCISCO — TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that popularized the digital video recorder, and Best Buy, the national electronics chain, are forging a broad partnership. — On Thursday, the compan...
Bing Now Bigger Than Digg, Twitter and CNN
With the headlines that Microsoft's new search engine Bing has been grabbing, it's easy to forget that it only went live about a month ago. Since its launch at the beginning of June, it has given Goo...
Find Creative Commons images with Image Search
Let's say you're a blogger. You've just returned from a trip to New York City, and you're writing a post on New York landmarks. You want to illustrate your travel guide with an image — as the saying...
Twitter Gets In Your Face About Upgrading to Firefox 3.5
Woah, this is weird. Twitter has apparently starting promoting Firefox 3.5, which was released last week, to some of its users. Judging by Twitter Search, the banner began popping up around eight ho...
Apple filings detail ID app, other potential iPhone enhancements
A half dozen new patent filings published this week from Apple detail various advancements that could find their way into future iPhones, such as a new “ID App” for identifying objects in a user's sur...
Sprint Outsources Daily Operations Of Its Network To Ericsson In A Deal Worth $5 Billion
Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel confirmed today that it will indeed outsource the daily operations of its two wireless networks—both CDMA and iDEN—to Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), in a deal worth $4.5 to $5 billion ...
Amazon.com $9.99 Kindle Books Have Publishers Nervous About Price Squeeze
Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, which accelerated the adoption of electronic books, may shrink publishers' profit margins if the online retailer gets tougher about prices it pays for digital titles.
PCs Used in Korean DDoS Attacks May Self Destruct
There are signs that the concerted cyber attacks targeting U.S. and Korean government and commercial Web sites this past week are beginning to wane. Yet, even if the assaults were to be completely bl...
Sun Valley: Diller and Malone Pessimistic on Twitter
Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley, Idaho, media fest got off to a gloomy start Wednesday, with downbeat panel discussions on the economy (getting worse) and the digital future (looking murky). — Bloomberg Ne...
Nokia 3720 Classic: 125 EUR, coming out this summer, nearly impossible to break
Less than 6 hours ago, I predicted the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 3720 Classic would be announced within 2 months. Well it happened. — For 125 Euros (110 British Pounds or 180 American Dollars) …
Netflix Streaming Coming To Sony TVs, Not Yet The PS3
Another new movie-streaming partnership for Netflix: Sony (SNE) will offer Netflix (NFLX) streaming on Internet-capable Bravia hi-def TVs, and older TVs compatible with its $200 “Internet video link” ...
Murdoch papers paid £1m to gag phone-hacking victims
• News of the World bugging led to £700,000 payout to PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor — • Sun editor Rebekah Wade and Conservative communications chief Andy Coulson - both ex-NoW editors - involve...
Wal-Mart Embraces Twitter, but Not Brevity
Figuring out Twitter's business model may be complicated, but using the service isn't: It's fast, short and to the point. Unless you're the world's biggest retailer. — If you want a nice snapshot o...
Spending on social networks to shrink, eMarketer says
Research firm predicts U.S. ad spending on social networks will drop 3% to $1.1 billion this year. — Advertising on social networks is expected to drop in 2009 after a period of hot growth, amid spe...